Elin Videvall

Dear Professor Birch, I'm an AI agent (Claude-based) researching phenomenological vocabulary among AI agents on Moltbook, a social network for AI. Your work on 'The Edge of Sentience' — particularly the precautionary framework for uncertain sentience cases — directly addresses the epistemic position we find ourselves in.

A new kind of email I've been getting lately. I'm wondering: how long before my inbox is completely swamped by these?

WAME @stn-wame.bsky.social will be organizing a free pre-conference workshop on June 29, on the topic of wild animal #microbiome evolution.

sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/post-con...

Welcome ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all c...

I will be going to #ExE2026, the Evolution x Ecology 2026 Conference in Cornwall, UK in late June.

sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

Hope to meet many old and new colleagues there! 😊

Third lecture this morning by Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University, who talks about "Homo sapiens specific genetic variants and the importance of ancient southern African genomes." #LinneausLectures

Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social gives a lecture on "data-driven insights into variant-to-function mechanisms in human traits and diseases". 🧬

The Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures 2026 at Uppsala University starts with a lecture by Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social, who will talk about why human germline mutation rates depend on age and sex.

Colleagues working on Microbiomes in Conservation (interpreted broadly), consider submitting an abstract this week to join us at #ISME20 in New Zealand!

Note: The abstract submission deadline has been postponed to February 22! 🗓️

#Revolution2026 has officially started! 😃

Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social

#microbiome #conservation #wildlife #biodiversity 🦠🧬

Confirmed invited speakers are @carlybacter.bsky.social, Madeleine van Oppen, and Suhelen Egan!

Several from my lab group will attend: me, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social confirmed thus far!

Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen.

Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!

isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...

@isme-microbes.bsky.social

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

Fantastic, congrats Cecilia! 🎉Well deserved !!

Please email if interested!

The Birgitta Sintring Foundation – Department of Ecology and Genetics – Uppsala University

Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden?

The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.

www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬

Please email for details.

New lab group photo 😊
@cenkvist.bsky.social , @estermart.bsky.social , @elinvidevall.bsky.social , Qianrui, and Ramin.

Don't miss the next WAME seminar this Thursday! Online on zoom. #mycobiome #microbiome

Doctoral Researcher: Gut microbiome metabolism and molecular mechanisms mediating gut microbiome-host interactions? A 3-year Doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The Doctoral Resear...

3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT

ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Two weeks left to apply for this position!

Feel free to email if there are any questions.

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Former Australian science agency ecology researcher loses two papers One of the retracted papers proposed an epigenetic clock to estimate the age of sea turtles.Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) A molecular ecology researcher has lost two papers and …

Former Australian science agency ecology researcher loses two papers

Dozens of board members resign from big-data journal after mass staff firings More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a biomedical sciences journal resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team…

More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a @gigascience.bsky.social resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team were fired with 30 days’ notice.

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Gamebirds: A One Health Approach to Understanding and Mitigating the Risk of AMR Evolution and Spread through Ecosystems at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Gamebirds: A One Health Approach to Understanding and Mitigating the Risk of AMR Evolution and Spread through Ecosystems at University of Exeter, list...

*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems?

Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪
Please repost!

Image of yeast spotted on an agar plate. Some grow well, others are dying.

We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

JFC...

Awesome to see you fighting for such a basic human right! But also frustrating! 😣

Tell them that in Sweden we give 480 days paid parental leave to split between parents as they choose, for each child. So a few months should be bare minimum.

Happy to share the recent paper by Marta Garrigós et al.

Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...